Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-05-21

The. Tables Turned.

The Tables Turned.
The great surprise among breeders of
thoroughbred stock-and which to great
er or less extent is shared by all farmers
who have beer made acquainted with the
fact-is the recent triumph of the Holstein
breed as butter yielding breed over the
world famous Jersey-the breed which
has been supposed to stand pre- eminent
and unapproachable for butter production.
The change is so remarkable an incident
\ in our live stock history that it will bear
the giving of few details regarding it..
At the great American Dairy Show
which has just closed at New York city.
only the well recognized dairy breeds
were on exhibition, including the JERSEYS.
Guernseys. Holsteins and Ayrshires. The
premiums were liberal, and as might be
supposed called out some of the finest
and most remarkable cows of the above
named breeds in the country. The prize
tor the COW giving the most milk during
"a consecutive hours of the exhibition
was $3.50 90; and tor the cow whose milk
yielded the greatest weight of butter in "a
hours Of the exhibition was $250.OO.
Among the Guernseys on exhibition
was the COW Jolie I'd. owned by Geo. W.
Fuller Of Pennsylvania, which gave Sc
quarts between sunrise and evening, has
to be MIXED four times day and has a
butter record of Is pounds in four days
Sne was justly regarded as the represen-
tative Of her class. The most famous
Jersey COW on exhibition was the COW
Garotas. owned by A B Darling of New
York, for which he has refused $4,000
Her best record is IS lbs, 6 ozs. of butter
in one month, or nearly pounds day.
1t was no surprise that the Holsteins
carried off the sweep stakes prize in the
contest for the greatest quantity of milk
produced by COW Of any breed, during
"a conse cutive hours OF the exhibition.
There was only one Jersey cow that en-
tered for this prize. out her record has
been withheld. This prize was won by
the thoroughbred Hol>,ein COW, Lady
Fay, who produced 65 lbs. and 1874
ozs., be .ting two other cows of
her own breed by about IA lbs. each
This result was not expected. The Hol-
stems are a famous dep milking race. ard
have the advantage OF a strong frame and
large carcass. This gives abundant capaci-
ty for 'nachinsry, so to speak. They are
good feeders. and having large frame to
support are capable Of assimilatinga great
amount of food, and above the food of
support-when mature COW is in good
condition ard kept so-the food of pro-
duction cannot fail to give big yield of
milk. Indeed this yield has been so large
t1at according to different authorities it
has amounted to three and half TO four
times their own weight. annually; and
Prof. Arnold, who is our best American
authority saws that from the averages of
annual records from Holstein cows which
he had examined he should place 1t much
higher Than this. Holsten milk is rich in
caseine. but has been regarded as only
fairly so in butter-the butter globules in
Holstein milk being abundant and uni
form in size. but small. '.On this account"
says Prof Arnold, ait is therefore better
adapted to cheese making and marketing
than to butter making"
Now we will 90 back to the "sensa-
tion," as some of the daily papers call it,
of the closing day of this great dairy fair,
when the award on the sweepstakes for
greatest amount of butter produced in "a
hours bv cow of any breed, was made
by the judges. For this prize two Guern-
seven Jerseys. The Judges churned and
weighed the milk of two days IN order to
obtain the best test, the details of the test
being under the care of DR.. +. Lewis
! Sturtevant OF the New York Agricultural
/ Experiment Station, than when there is
| not a more competent expert milk chem
list in the country. This prize to the aston
ishment of the agricultural nation, was
won by Clothilde,a thoroughbred Hols'ein
whose record was tsco pounds. seuem and a
half ounces of butter in "a hours. Blu, still
another fact Of interest enters into thus
contest and makes a still more significant
triumph for the Holsteins. 1t is that the
only other COW in this band of
fifteen cows of three leading dair,
breeds which came anywhere near
Clothilde's record, was also a
Hoistein. and one of her own calres. the
three-y ears old heifer. ClothiIde AIN. whose
butter record in the same time was two
pounds and quarter of an ounce 1t is
proper to add that these prize winning
Hol,teins all belong to the noted breeding
firm of Smiths. Powell & Lamb, Syracuse
N. Y. The records in this test made BY
the Jersey and Guernsey cows competing
have not vet been made public.
1t is not easy. just now, to explain the
causes of this transferance of supremacy
from the Jerseys to the Hosteins, or to
predict its results upon the future interests
of the great dairy breeds of our country
1t is intimatcd, however, that one reason